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Customer service above and beyond
Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
The Shelton Rotary Club recently awarded its annual Courtesy Clerks
award to five local employees who were nominated by club members.
The winners are, from row from left, Monica Deemer of Shelton Dental
Excellence, Sharon Jacot of Advanced Chiropractic and Cathy Mattson
of Walmart; and back row from left, Sam Opfer of Sage Bookstore and
Bill Schrock of the Safeway Pharmacy.
Divorces
Jan. 24
Teresa I Rolden and Michael A.
Rolden
Jan. 27
Danielle Tarver and Leland Tarver
Jan. 30
Tamatha Bridgette Baxter and
Brian Michael Baxter
Yvonne M. Trejo and Carlos Trejo-
Hernandez
Feb. 7
Barbara J. Huson and Michael S.
Diaz
Bill could make building apartments easier
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty.cora
A bill working its way through the
Legislature will encourage people to
build affordable, multifamily hous-
ing in the Belfair urban growth area
(UGA), supporters say.
"It would make builders or devel-
opers more interested in building
multifamily housing within the Bel-
fair UGA," said Rob Drexler, real es-
tate broker and co-owner of John L.
Scott, Belfair.
The bills would give builders an
eight- or twelve-year property tax for
new or rehabilitated construction of
multiunit housing in urban growth
areas with sewers in counties with
only one city.
Qualifying housing complexes will
need to have at least four units and at
least 20 percent of the units must be
priced for low- to- moderate-income
families.
House Bill 2738, sponsored partly
by Rep. Kathy Haigh (D-Shelton),
was the subject of a House Finance
Committee Monday and Senate Bill
6339 sponsored by Sen. Tim Shel-
don, (D-Potlatch), was the subject of a
hearing Monday at the Senate Ways
& Means Committee.
Both the House and Senate will
need to approve the bill before it be-
comes law.
The tax exemption is available to
builders in cities, but not to counties
with under 350,000 population in un-
incorporated areas, said Mason Coun-
ty Commissioner Terri Jeffreys.
Counties are not required to im-
plement the tax exemption, Jeffreys
said.
"Should the bill pass then the
county commission needs to identify
residential targeted areas," she said.
The Belfair UGA would likely be
one of these residential targeted ar-
eas, Jeffreys said.
The tax exemption would en-
courage people to build multifam-
ily housing in the Belfair UGA,
which would also lead to more
hookups to the Belfair sewer, Jef-
freys said.
"There are at least three develop-
ers that have said this tax incentive
would make that difference for them,"
she said.
Jeffreys said there is a shortage
of multifamily affordable housing in
Belfair.
"Any property manager will tell
you that all the housing that's avail-
able for rental is out way in the out-
skirts," Jeffreys said. "There is just
no rental housing available in the ur-
ban growth area."
Drexler said people call his office
frequently looking for rental hous-
ing, but can't always afford to rent a
house.
"You can rent a two-bedroom
house, which is all we have to rent
(in Belfair), and that would cost you
maybe $850 to $1,000," he said.
However, a two-bedroom apart-
ment might cost $500 to $650, Drex-
ler said.
Drexler said there are just over 50
units in multifamily complexes in the
Belfair UGA.
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